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The percentage of births notified by midwives was 76.2% as
Compared with 61.5% in 1929; by doctors 16.4% compared with
31.6% in 1929; parents and others 8.4% compared with 6.9%.
Unnotified births were 3.6% of the total, a decrease of 3.3% over
1929.
Although occasional difficulties still arise, the visits of the
health visitors become more appreciated as the years pass. There
is less hostility, and requests for a visit are frequently received.
It is unfortunate that some medical practitioners still look with
suspicion upon these visits, though I believe, if the objects were
fully realised, suspicion would vanish.
Ante-Natal Supervision.
Four sessions are held weekly in the Lodge Road Clinic by
the two lady medical officers. Owing to the absorption of cases
for admission to the Maternity Block at the Mayday Road
Hospital, who formerly attended an Ante-Natal Clinic held there,
at three sessions, two medical officers now attend. This arrangement
commenced at the beginning of November. Table LXXV
gives a summary of the attendances .
Of the 1,023 patients who attended, 556 (54%) were sent by
some branch of the Public Health Department; 303 (30%) were
sent by midwives; 266 (26%) came on their own initiative; 36
(3.5%) were sent by their private doctors.
The increase in the number of women coming on their own
initiative is a satisfactory feature of the returns.

These figures show an increase on those for 1929, due partly
to the Mayday Road Hospital cases, though many of these
mothers in former years attended the Ante-Natal Clinic at Lodge
Road at least once before passing on to Mayday Road.